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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1944
Page
4
Classified ad listing used cars for sale including 1941 Plymouth Coach 1939 Dodge four door sedan 1935 Dodge four door sedan 1924 Dodge four door sedan 1929 Dodge sedan 1929 Chevrolet four door sedan 1935 Ford V coach and a piano for sale by A B Van Houweling Auto Co 2928 Chevrolet Matron Sedan.
Hodgepodge of farm ads lists leghorn cockerels chicks and various items for sale. Hatches Tuesdays and Fridays from Klyn Bros and Bram Feed Store. Also offers feeds, bean and recleaned seed, machinery like horse drawn cultivators, windmills, radios, and furniture. Multiple contact names and phone numbers included for local sales and services.
A small purse lost in front of Farmers Union at noon contains about five dollars. A reward is offered for the return, along with a keepsake brooch. Please contact the finder for that keepsake.
Found boys jacket. for rent three modern rooms with private entrance and light housekeeping. WANTED to buy homes, dogs, wool. typing and mimeograph work offered. Miscellaneous services include tire repair electrical work and monument sales. Local ads list phone numbers and names for contact.
HELP WANTED ATTENTION GIRLS AND WOMEN We want 50 or more girls and women for steady, clean and pleasant work. now earn as much as $28.50 for 40 hour week. We and one-half for over 40 Come, help us make trav ors for the Navy. WE MUST HAVE 50 MORE WORKERS. Come in and look the job over. You will like it. PELLA MANUFACTURING CORP. WANTED-Two young ladies for work at the Home. Good pay and keep. Apply in person.
Our government urges citizens to recycle waste paper and help ease a box shortage. Bring every scrap to the waste paper depot on the east side of the square, day or night, and Ted King thanks contributors for their patriotic effort.
Public notice states that Carrie Jane Birkenholz and Marion Birkenholz have separated and no longer live together. Each keeps own property and will not be responsible for the others bills or obligations incurred after separation.
Cards of thanks express gratitude to neighbors friends and service organizations for help after bereavement flood and field work. Names Gerrit Wormhoudt G J Wormhoudt Mrs Cora Den Hartog and family Mr Mrs Alex Van Vark are mentioned along with thanks for tractors meals and moral support.
I thank everyone who remembered me while confined to the Veterans' Hospital in Des Moines. Cards letters and calls lifted my spirits. Al together their interest means a great deal to me Henry A. Klyn I also thank the Pella Fire Department for quick help when a fire near Pella in May threatened my home. Their timely aid saved the home and reduced losses. I am grateful to Lautenbach & Verg for prompt settlement of my insurance claim John G. Klein
Mahaska County faces severe erosion and silting with an estimated 1.2 million tons of topsoil lost and about 50 000 acres flooded or silted. Reports credit conservation practices and contour farming for reducing further losses while rainfall totals in April and May exceeded normals. Local farmers note variable damage and widespread concerns over soil and flood impact.
Horace Cheney of Iowa State College urges farmers to cut hay early to maximize protein. Alfalfa should be cut before June 20 at 10 to 25 percent bloom, red clover at 50 percent bloom, with timothy and clover mixes following a week later. Delayed harvest reduces protein, lowers digestibility, and cuts seed yields, though meadows show improvement this year.
A clipped line quotes Phil Baker describing a crude pickup line about a girl in the dark and onions. The speaker suggests a bold approach using innuendo as he explains inhaling and coming in on the beam. The fragment lacks additional context or attribution.
Notice from the Towa Soil Conservation Committee for Marion County Iowa announcing the June 17 1944 election for a Soil Conservation District commissioner. Voting hours 1 to 8 pm at Knoxville Melcher Pella Bussey and Pleasantville polling places. Absentee ballots available by contacting the county auditor Knoxville Iowa with land ownership details. CHRIS H JENSEN chairman.
Aric H Bogaard expresses gratitude to neighbors and friends who assisted in evacuating his belongings from his home as high water threatened to cause damage. The act was described as thoughtful and kind.
Prairie City Iowa resident Marion L Steenhoek expresses gratitude to relatives friends and neighbors for kind remembrances while in the Lutheran hospital Des Moines. Cards and letters greatly appreciated. In wedding dialogue a bride corrects a misnaming saying My name is Margaret as the best man recounts reading Ivy's letters.
In Knoxville on May 28 the seventh annual Shorthorn sales drew 811 804 in cattle with bulls averaging 181 00 and cows averaging 191 00 The top bull prices reached 415 and 400 for two CL Rees purchases The top cow price was 350 with a 263 average for seven consignments at Revs and 160 for six at Van Lint The sale was run by J M Davis and J B Halsey auctioneers Knoxville Journal. The notice also reports a death in Grand Rapids Michigan of Dr Cornelius Case Geenen aged 47 and notes his Sully residence and Central College ties.
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